OAKLAND — A girl has averted jail time and a homicide conviction after pleading no contest to accent in reference to a January 2022 deadly taking pictures allegedly dedicated by her pimp, court docket information present.
Mariah Bostick, 32, pleaded no contest to accent after the actual fact within the Jan. 18, 2022 loss of life of 45-year-old Virgil Earl Robinson III. In trade for the plea, prosecutors dropped a homicide cost towards her. She was formally sentenced in August to a two-year probation time period and to time she already served whereas in jail awaiting a decision to her case, court docket information present.
Bostick was a intercourse employee who agreed to an encounter with Robinson close to San Antonio Park, an space the place prostitutes are recognized to deliver shoppers. The East Oakland park was the scene of a previous murder involving a shootout between a pimp and a John that killed a lady. In keeping with court docket information, Robinson and her had an argument, main Bostick to name her pimp to the realm.
She allegedly advised her pimp, “hop on him, daddy,” and the pimp responded by taking pictures Robinson, authorities say. The pimp has by no means been publicly recognized or charged in reference to the taking pictures. Bostick was arrested and charged with homicide.
Bostick was launched from jail final 12 months, and ordered to attend parenting courses. She acquired all “good” and “exceptional” markings and was lauded for an general “great” efficiency, in response to progress reviews filed in court docket.
At Bostick’s March 12 preliminary listening to, prosecutors argued that whereas she wasn’t the killer, she “is the one instigating, directing the unknown co-participant’s conduct,” and that she continued to take action after the pimp advised Robinson, “I’m going to shoot you.” Bostick’s then-lawyer argued that she was a trafficking sufferer with an irate and hostile john who was caught between a rock and a tough place.
“Within sex work if you are sent out to work and you lose money or don’t come back with money there can be consequences for that…she is at risk of harm,” legal professional Jeff Wozniak, who didn’t characterize Bostick for her sentencing, mentioned on the preliminary listening to.
Decide Thomas Reardon held Bostick to reply on a homicide depend, whereas noting the comparatively low authorized bar for preliminary hearings. However he brazenly doubted whether or not she truly supposed for Robinson to die.
“I think she has created and participated in a circumstance which is with reckless indifference to human life as to what might occur under these circumstances,” Reardon mentioned on the listening to. “But intending to kill him, I just don’t see it.”
